Cash-register.



Nb. 786,304. PATENTBD APR. 4, 1905. A. MNISZBWSKI.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 22, 1903.

UNITED STATES Patented April 4, 1905 PATENT OFFICE.

CASH-REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 786,304, dated April4, 1905.

Application filed September 22, 1903. Serial No. 174,287.

To all whom it nuty concern:

Be it known that I, ANTON MNIsZEwsKI, a subject of the King of Prussia,German Emperor, and a resident of 13 Ritterstrasse, Posen, in theKingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Cash-Registers, of which the following is an eXactspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in cash-registers, and has for itspurpose to pro vide an arrangement by means of which it is attained thatthe employee attending the cash-register must exactly register theamount paid even in case a customer stands far off from the register andcannot see the registering device. In order to attain this purpose, Iconnect a mechanically-working cash-register of any convenientconstruction with a phonetically-working cash-registeras, for instance,with a recordingphonograph, a gramophone, or any other sound-recordingmachine.

The cash-register and the sound-recording machine may be connected insuch a way that in case the money-box or in case of several money-boxesbeing provided one of these money-boxes is opened and the sound-recording machine begins to rotate. After the clockwork of thesound-recording machine is released the cylinder or plate of thesoundrecording machine must rotate for a certain While and then bestopped again. The employee attending the cash-register must speak theamount to be paid into the soundrecording machine, so that this amountis not only registered in the well-known manner by the cash-register,but also by this talking-machine. In case, therefore, the amountsprinted upon the control-strip of the cashregister are in the rightsuccession compared with the amounts registered upon the cylinder orplate of the sound-recording machine these amounts must be equal. Incase of several employees attending the cash-register it may occur thatone of the same does not speak loud enough or intentionally speaksindistinctly. As in the cash-regis ters the initials or other signs ofeach employee attending the cash-register are printed at the side of theamounts, it can in this case by comparing the registration of thetalking-machine with the control-strip be easily found out who of theemployees did not properly attend the cash-register.

The connection between the cash-register and the phonograph may beeffected in any convenient way; but care must be taken that thesound-recording machine runs for a certain while after actuating thecash-register, so that there is suflicient time for speaking the amountinto the sound-recording machine. Advantageously the money-drawer of thecash-register is used for detaching the clockwork of the sound-recordingmachine; but it will be understood that any other con venient part ofthe cash-register may be used for this purpose.

In order to make my invention more clear, I refer to the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a cash-register providedwith my new arrangement with the money-drawer closed. Fig. 2 is a sideView of the same with the money-drawer opened.

In the drawings, a is the cash-register proper.

b is a phonograph situated above the same.

0 is the speaking-funnel of the phonograph.

Upon the axle d of the phonographcylin der a click-wheel e is situated.f is a click engaging with this click-wheel, and g is a spring pressingthe click against the clickwheel. The phonograph is provided with aclockwork or spring for rotating the cylinder in case the click f isreleased from the click-wheel. The click f is pivoted at f and isconnected to a lever f tt represent an angle-lever pivoted at 71 To thearm 01 of this angle-lever a hook 2'? is hinged, which hook is drawn, bymeans of a spiral spring i toward the pivot h, a stop being provided forholding this hook in the desired position. The arm 71 of the anglel.evere" is provided at its lower end with a slot *5, in which slides a pin7c, fixed to the moneydrawer 7c. The pin 75 projects through a slot (1in the casing of the cash-register.

In the drawings the operating parts are shown outside the casing; but itwill be understood that the same may just as well be situated inside thesame.

The effect of the device is as follows: If the drawer 7c is opened, theangle-lever 'i i swings around its pivot 7t, and the hook t draws thelever downward, thereby releasing the click f'from the click-wheel 6against the action of the spring g. In consequence of the furtherswinging of the angle-lever i t" the hook i is released from the lever fso that the click f is pressed downward again and slides over thebevel-face of the following tooth of the clickwheel. The cylinder of thephonograph can consequently only rotate until the following tooth of theclickwheel 0 pushes against the click The teeth oi the click-wheel e areso long that there is sufiicient time for speaking the amount paid intothe speaking-funnel c. If the drawer k is closed again, the angle-leveri i swings back, and the hook i engages again with the lever f It willbe clear that the construction shown in the drawings and described isonly an example and that the invention may be modilied in differentways.

Having thus "fully described the nature of my invention, what I desireto secure by Letters Patent ol the United States is 1. Incash-registers, the combination of a mechanically-working cash-registerwith a phonetically-working cash-register, a mechanism for rotating thissecond register and means for releasing this mechanism, by actuating thefirst register, so long that the cash can be registered by speaking intothe second cash-register, substantially as described and for the purposeset forth.

2. In cash-registers, the combination ol a mechanically-workingcash-register with a phonetically-working cash-register, a mechanism forrotating the second register, a ratchet-wheel fixed to the axle of thismech anism, a ratchet being under spring-pressure, so as to permanentlytend to engage with said wheel, means for disengaging for a moment theratchet and the ratchet-wheel, so that said plionetically-workingregister is rotated until the ratchet abuts against the next teeth ofthe ratchet-wheel, substantially as described and for the purpose setforth.

3. In cash-registers, the combination of a mechanically-workingcash-register with a phonetically-working cash-register, a mechanism forrotating the second register, a ratchet-wheel .lixed to the axle of thismechanism, a ratchet being under spring-pressure, so as to permanentlytend to engage with said wheel, a money-drmver, and means fordisengaging l or a moment the ratchet and the ratchet-wheel by openingthe moneydrawer of the apparatus, substantially as described and for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence ol two subscribing witnesses.

ANTON MNISZEIVSKI.

Witnesses WOLDEM R IIAUPT, HENRY HAsrn'a.

